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Monday, 11 June 2012

Bacon in Bodrum

In the 30 odd years of traveling back and forth to Bodrum, one item in my luggage doesn't change - dead pig. Despite the arrival of large supermakets, proper bacon is still a luxury in Turkey and I probably wouldn't get a very good welcome from my nearest and dearest if I didn't have a couple of kilos of porky delights in my bag. There are shops in Bodrum selling English bacon and sausages but having tried them once, I wouldn't go back. So my first morning back in England has been spent catching up with emails and cruising Mr. Sainsbury's meat aisles. I'm writing this using a blogger app on a Samsung S for the first time. If it comes out as complete gobbledy gook, I'll have to live with it until I get back to my desk top. Here goes...pressing publish...

On a recent trip to Germany I thought I might be overdoing it by having ham for breakfast, wurst for lunch and schnitzel for dinner. Then I went to Italy and had four kinds of pork in one meal. Obsessed indeed.

About Me

In early 1982 I boarded a Turkish Kibris flight to Izmir - my destination was a 29 foot sloop in Bodrum's new marina. At 22, my belongings fitted into a worse for wear sailing holdall. In 2012 I made a similar journey from Heathrow to Bodrum. Thirty years have passed and Bodrum has changed. There are plenty of very good blogs detailing the ex-pat journey through modern Turkey. The aim of this one is to catch sight of past Turkey through my experience of re-settling in modern Bodrum.